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Consumer prices in Vietnam grew 1.84 percent in the first eight months of this year, the slowest pace since 2009, as demand for goods and services remained weak, an economist said.

In August alone, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a closely watched measure of inflation, rose only 0.22 percent from the previous month, according to the General Statistics Office.

In the basket of 11 groups of goods and services used to calculate the CPI, food and foodservice prices saw the highest rise of 0.45 percent month-on-month in August, followed by clothing prices, which were up 0.32 percent.